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SportsCentury is an ESPN biography television program that reviews the people and events that defined sports in North America throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Using stock footage, on-camera interviews, and photographs of their athletic lives, who grew up.
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Michael Jordan, who dominated the NBA and won six championships, has been named the greatest North American athlete of the 20th century by SportsCentury's distinguished 48-member panel.
"ESPN SportsCentury" is a sweeping retrospective chronicling the greatest athletes, best teams, and most unforgettable moments of the century -- featuring original essays by some of America's...
ESPN SportsCentury: With Chris Fowler, Dick Schaap, Edwin Pope, Robert Lipsyte. A biography series counting down the 50 greatest North American athletes of the 20th century. It was expanded to include other athletes, personalities, and notable moments in sports history.
ESPN's 18-month SportsCentury project includes approximately 60 original hours of programming on ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC, and several other related tie-ins through different mediums.
In 1999, ESPN counted down the Top 50 Athletes of the 20th Century, selected from North American athletes and voted on by a panel of sports journalists and observers, premiering a new biography highlighting each top athlete every week throughout the year.